A jury in Dallas, Texas , has said that a pair must pay their wed photographer $1.08 million in detriments for launching a public campaign are aiming to malign and disrepute her after the two parties quarrelled over a $125 fee.

Wedding photographer Andrea Polito said Friday’s decision was the end of a long journey.

Andrew and Neely Moldovan had hired the photographer and her studio to take their action photographs and captivate their October 2014 wed and recital dinner. Polito said she had been a busy marriage photographer in the Dallas area for over a decade, and her studio was typically booked every weekend.

After the nuptials, Polito’s contract stipulates that once she communicates proofs, the couple must put in an tell for their album, which carries an additional cost of at the least $125 for the cover.

According to the lawsuit Polito filed in March 2015, Neely Moldovan, a lifestyle and allure blogger in Dallas who has previously blogged for HuffPost, sought copies of high-resolution photograph from the episode after she received proofs. Despite contractual etiquette, the couple did not defer their guild for the album.

Polito told The Washington Post that she, like many other bridal photographers, does not release high-res epitomes until after the entire bundle is comprehensive and paid for because” photographers will hand over the images and the bride fades .”

After several emails back and forth reiterating the contract, Polito said she waived the fee in an attempt to move on with the process. Then she learned the couple had told neighbourhood news stations Polito was ” viewing their photos hostage ,” according to the dres. The couple appeared on Dallas’ local NBC News depot, mourning its own experience working with Polito.

They too complained on social media, posting commentaries on Facebook and Instagram and writing a review trashing the photographer as “scamming” them on WeddingWire, a locate couples use to find uniting dealers. The suit also said multiple one-star evaluates appeared on its consideration of the report locate Yelp in the working day after the Moldovans appeared on TV.

Polito wrote candidly about the experience on her blog, and she ultimately filed a defamation suit that alleged that the couple’s expedition maligned her and destroyed her business. The photographer said in her lawsuit and to multiple bulletin stores that the viral news article eventually generated her to close her studio. She told CBS News she hasn’t photographed a marry in two years.

A Dallas county jury in agreement with the photographer, and found the couple guilty of libelling Polito and acting out of malice to depreciate her and her business.

Neely Moldovan did not reply to HuffPost’s is asking for comment. The duo can appeal the judgment but have not indicated if its intention to do so, in agreement with the The Associated Press.

Polito’s lawyerDave Wishnew said Polito hopes the verdict will send a theme” that freedom of speech does not mean liberty from upshots .”